A Couple of Surprises Today

I walked in this morning to a couple of good surprises! The first one was a funny black curvy thing on the kitchen island and the second thing was fresh baked donuts (thank you Rhonda) and fresh sourdough Cinnamon bread (thank you Colleen)! Yum!!!!

Now for the saga of the curvy black thing.....

A couple of weeks ago I was working the desk at the Appalachian Arts Craft Center, near Norris TN. While I was there I began rearranging the weaver's merchendise that we make downstairs in the Weaving Studio, especially the placemats. It hit me like a ton of bricks that there might be a better way to display them! I texted the leadership team and we texted back several times that afternoon. We ended up having Marie order 6 of those black curvy things so that we could display the Placemats like they were on a closets rod! Here is the before.....

Here Angie and I have taken the placemats and original hardware down and we have put up our estimate of where the rods should go.

Finally we had fun putting the placemats in place and adding some of the kits we put together, namely the stick weaving kits and the scarf weaving kits that we make out of hand dyed bamboo. I am eyeing those endcaps where we have our hand towels, stay tuned for more fluffing of inventory!

While we were doing that bit of magic upstairs, the other weavers were downstairs doing their thing! Rhonda finished her warp and cut it off. I think I counted 3 full baby blanket sized pieces plus some smaller pieces for fabric.

Marilyn had a few threading errors to tend to today but before lunch she had started weaving on her towel warp.

Cathy is making wonderful progress on her towel warp, she has used a different weft color for each towel.

Liz #2 is threading the repweave warp that she was winding onto the back beam last week.

Colleen is continuing to weave towels in Summer/Winter.

Nobody brought Show and Tell today not even Mark! So join us again next week to see what we come up with next! Until then this is Tina for all!